Her sponsor was Eleanor Harvey, the retiring president of the Women Students' Cooperative Government Association at the College of William and Mary and a member of the class of 1945.

Naval Air Corps Lieutenant Robert Eastman, an alumnus of the college, pushed the button that released the ship into the water.

Edie Harwood, president of the Women Students' Cooperative Government Association, was Harvey's maid of honor.

[4] SS William and Mary Victory served in the Atlantic Ocean in World War II operated by the International Freighting Company.

In 1961 she was sold to Empresa Líneas Marítimas Argentinas, in Buenos Aires, converted back to a cargo ship.